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subdeann.Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: French souzdean , soubdean ; sub- prefix, dean n.1 Etymology: Partly (i) < Anglo-Norman souzdean and Middle French soubdean (14th cent.; compare Old French sodaien , souzdaien , Middle French soubsdoyen ; < sous- , sub- (see sub- prefix) + deien dean n.1), and partly (ii) < sub- prefix + dean n.1, after post-classical Latin subdecanus (frequently from 11th cent. in British sources). Compare southdean n. society > faith > church government > council > chapter > member of chapter > [noun] > head > assistant to α. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland (Vernon) (1867) A. ii. l. 150 Alle Denes and Sodenes [c1400 Trin. Cambr. southdenis; a1425 Univ. Oxf. sudenes]. 1434 in J. Robertson (1846) 249 Me Johne Stewart sudan of Glasgu. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 122v A Svdene, subdecanus. a1529 J. Skelton (?1545) sig. B.vi But for the Egle doth flye Hyest in the skye He shall be thye sedeane The quere to demeane. 1581–2 in W. Cramond (1903) I. 165 For ane pair of brekis and ane cluk to the suddene of Murray. β. a1450 (c1378) W. Langland (Cambr. Dd.1.17) (1869) B. ii. l. 172 [Denes and] Subdeanes.c1475 in (Harl. 642) (1790) 49 (MED) Deane of Chapell, called the Kinges Chiefe Chaplaine..assignethe the sub-deane and the chaunters to guyde, kepe, and rule all the queere [= choir] in stedfast service and honourable demeanyng.1506 in C. Innes (1842) 375 Subdene of our souerane lordis chapell.a1600 R. Lindsay (1899) I. 200 The archedeine..and subdeine..witht all kynd of wther offieceis pertaining to ane colledge.1643 W. Prynne 29 Dr. Theodor Price, Subdean of Westminster.1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti i. iii. 75 The Deans, and Sub-Deans of the Popes Chapel.1748 J. Chamberlayne (ed. 37) ii. iii. 231 12 Minor Canons [of St Paul's Cathedral]... The Rev. Mr. William Rayner, Subdean, sen.1838 Aug. 197/2 The Queen returned the Bible to the Archbishop, who gave it to the Sub-Dean.1863 26 Sept. (General Advertiser) 385/2 King's College, London... Medical Tutor and Sub-Dean—John Harley, M.D.1876 J. Grant i. 19 There are four principal persons in that cathedral [sc. Sarum], namely, the dean, chanter, chancellor, treasurer, besides a subdean and subchanter.1938 E. Goudge (1998) xiii. 297 Canon Leigh the Subdean was bent low over his study table, setting searching examination questions upon morals.1972 29 June 782/2 Applications, with the names of two referees, should be sent as soon as possible to the Sub-Dean, School of Molecular Sciences, University of Sussex.1985 (Nexis) 19 Jan. g11 The Rev. Lloyd Casson..has been elected canon and subdean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmassub-dean The office came originally from that of the monastic dean, and was disciplinary; one important function of the dean in early times was to preside at the disputations of the scholars, and in the Oxford colleges of the new foundation deans were appointed in the different faculties, e.g. at New College, two in Arts, one in Canon Law, one in Civil Law, and one in Theology, who presided at the disputations of the students in these faculties; from the end of the 16th cent., it became customary also in most colleges for the dean to present for degrees. At present the functions pertaining to discipline, attendance at chapel, graduation, etc., are sometimes discharged by a single dean, alone or in conjunction with a sub-warden, vice-president, or other vice-gerent, sometimes distributed among two or three deans; hence the offices of senior and junior dean, or sub-dean, dean of arts, dean of divinity, dean of degrees, existing in some colleges.< n.c1390as lemmas |